"Be flexible like trees; when the wind blows bend, but do not break."
- Matshona Dhliwayo
"He who can endure the worst can withstand any thing."
- Lailah Gifty Akita
"The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside."
- Jonathan Anthony Burkett
"When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up"
- Richmond Akhigbe
"In the wilderness, our faith is tested, and God faithfulness is manifested."
"Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerge..."
- Richelle E. Goodrich
"Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry ..."
"Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that's not important. What's important is that through it all you ..."
"Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"Life was a bloody battlefield until I conquered the enemy and won the war. Now, life is a journey, and I am a warrior. Prepared for anything and weakened by nothing. There are hills and dales, mountai..."
- B.G. Bowers